Practical information, tips, and advice on how to tap into the creative energies of learners and promote cultural competence and cross-cultural understanding
While I was planning for the year-end reflection training, I was reading the book The Art of Coaching Teams: Building Resilient Communities That Transform Schools by Elena Aguilar. The book is a great source of team-building ideas and it did help inform some of the activities for the training I planned and implemented. I recommend … Continue reading ‘A Year in Perspective’ Training
To promote an English language institution, we need to get to the core of why people in a certain geographic region learn English as a foreign language. Why do parents enroll their kids in English courses? Why do youngsters bother learning English? Back in the days, I started learning English at the age of 10 … Continue reading Marketing an English-language institution
Here you are, native of a non-English speaking country, with a sincere passion in making a difference in the lives of children, and a yearning desire to start a new life in a place you have always dreamed of being. Your job hunting strategy consists of scrolling down to the Job Requirements section of any … Continue reading Challenging some well-established beliefs
The “Mild Crisis” of the English Language in Japan With its great history, unparalleled economic development, cultural richness, and culinary diversity, Japan offers its visitors experiences marked by novelty and distinctiveness. Yet, once visitors enter the Land of the Rising Sun, the English language seizes to be the anchor dropped in a foreign country to … Continue reading Integrating the English language into the fabric of industrialized Asian communities
Empty corridors, soaked with a myriad of footsteps. Whispers follow them behind. Children's laughter has subsided, giving way to stillness. Waiting for the bell to ring and the doors to open; ready to absorb the future. Weekly Photo Challenge: Silence
When it comes to learning, I invite you to close your eyes and travel back to the early days of your learning experiences within the school setting. Picture your classroom and some of its interior, your teachers and some of their actions, your classmates and some of their reactions, which are the subjects that the … Continue reading Bridging the teacher-student gap
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